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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ermine Moths and kin (Yponomeutoidea) » Sun Moths (Heliodinidae) » Lithariapteryx » Lithariapteryx elegans - Hodges#2512.1 (Lithariapteryx elegans)
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Lithariapteryx elegans? - Lithariapteryx elegans
Copyright © 2014 Alice Abela

Lithariapteryx elegans? - Lithariapteryx elegans
Surf Beach, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
April 23, 2014
Size: ~5mm
Found in coastal sandy foredune habitat dominated by yellow and red sand verbenas
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Contributed by Alice Abela on 23 April, 2014 - 11:10pm
Last updated 26 April, 2014 - 12:49am

Moved
Moved from Moths.

Very nice photo indeed!
Matches the UC Berkeley photo better than your earlier submission.
Please send me a square cropped version for MPG.
Thanks
… Maury J. Heiman, 26 April, 2014 - 12:49am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks for the confirmation. Do you think it's worth editing the range description to include the dune systems on Vandenberg? This individual was photographed on Surf Beach on the base.
… Alice Abela, 26 April, 2014 - 1:33pm login or register to post comments

 
You're welcome!
Range added.
Thank you!
… Maury J. Heiman, 26 April, 2014 - 1:47pm login or register to post comments

What an amazing image, Alice!
Wish we were smart enough to answer your question, but hopefully Terry Harrison will tell us.
… john and jane balaban, 24 April, 2014 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

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